Entries Categorized as 'questions that plague me'

Selma Diamond

June 11, 2008

 I haven’t been posting lately, sorry.
I just finished my teaching semester last week and this week I started teaching summer school, so I had about, umm, three days off in between. They call that a weekend.
On top of that i’ve got a cold, that feels to me like bronchitis, and I even lost my [...]

I usually get told I look like Anthony Michael Hall (at least when I was 16)

May 19, 2008

I sent in two different photos of me to see which Celebs I resemble most.
These are the results:

Wayne Knight and I do sort of have the same smile.

I have a little bit of a cleft chin, so I sort of understand the Kirk Douglas… but why is there a 66% connection with Sarah Michelle Gellar?
Any [...]

That’s SO Gay!

April 22, 2008

Last night, at the community college where I teach Ted and I gave a presentation titled That’s So Gay! for our annual Literary Arts Festival. It was the kickoff event, a reading/interrogation by several of the professors of the school. Our theme for the Lit. Arts Festival this year is The Writer As Activist and [...]

No V-Shot, sorry.

March 14, 2008

The Photobooth Reading was awesome. Such a blast. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and special thanks to those who
sent in photostrips (they all flashed on the screen before and after the reading) . I’ll blog more about it later, but here’s a photostrip of me and Ted and our friend Jen from last night.
Confidential: [...]

Did you know that the first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer?

January 18, 2008

I just got an email from my brother in law that stated, Did you know that the first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer?
This came with a bunch of “Did You Know” questions (like “The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred [...]

Paula Abdul, Lana Turner, and Gustave Flaubert*

January 15, 2008

Is it totally silly and shameful for me to be excited about the new season of “American Idol”?
(tonight is the 2 hour season premier; and you know they held one audition in San Diego which apparently was pretty spectacular–but we’ll see). I’m making WeightWatchers Chicken Enchiladas for dinner, and in a couple of hour we’ll [...]

1950s Classrooms

December 22, 2007

I got a good few days of writing (on the novel) done this week, in between a bit of shopping and cooking (made Mexican Wedding Cookies yesterday–the little balls rolled in powdered sugar).

I was fairly productive in the writing– really hit my stride later in the evening (after being at the coffee shop for about [...]

Worke Shited Page

December 9, 2007

Hi.
I’m done with my semester(s)! Well, I have to give a final exam on Wednesday but i’m pretty much done with my semester. And, i’m just about done with grading. I haven’t been this far ahead in grading since, I don’t know when.
I hope y’all don’t mind if I rant for just a [...]

I.M.

October 17, 2007

Why do I still get International Male Magazine delivered to my door?

Why is International Male Magazine still around?
These are the questions that plague me.